Gloria Calderón Kellett was never quite able to fit Hollywood’s out-of-touch mold for a Latino woman back in her acting days more than a decade ago. Nor did she care to.
She’d audition for roles — mostly “gangbanger’s girlfriend” or “gangbanger’s wife” — and never rarely worked because she did not look “Latino enough.”
The experience motivated her to be an authentic voice at a time when one was obviously needed. She decided to focus on writing.
“I will write my perspective and it will resonate, hopefully,” she said she thought at the time. It worked.
More than 11 years later, her story — and her family’s story — is now front and center in Netflix’s “One Day at a Time,” which is currently streaming.
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